Re: Pointing device acting as joystick (Peter Hutterer please help!)

2010-11-08 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:11:00AM +1100, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi all (and especially Peter Hutterer, Grand Master of Xorg Input). I have a SpaceNavigator (6-axis pointing device) which I'd like to use for scrolling (or even better

Re: Dual-head config broke with update to 1.4.2

2010-02-15 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote: Your best bet is to switch to using xrandr to configure your card: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 It will let you dynamically switch between single and multi-head. No, that doesn't work for me. I need classic dualhead with

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-31 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Man, don't have a job? Is your time worth anything to you? And by the way ... I've never read so many *strange* arguments in one discussion. I don't understand your point. I think it would be great if GTK supported all the features he

Re: Configuring FireMV 2400

2010-01-21 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Bill Conner wrote: I've been fighting with get a ATI FireMV 2400 PCIE for several days now and I've reached a dead end. I was hoping someone has already resolved my issue or can point me in the right direction. I have a 2400 MV with only two working heads.

Re: PCIe and PCI dual cards?

2009-11-28 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Jaguar Finch wrote: I'm trying to get a PCIe and a PCI video card to work together for a multi-monitor setup but I'm getting (EE) No devices detected.  Fatal server error:  no screens found. This is under Ubunutu 9.04 and both are nvidia cards. According to the log, both

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:34:38AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:19:52 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: That might be the very thing! There is even a fedora package for it. I'm off to crank it up and see if I can get it to work they way

Re: 4 head, dual firemv 2400 radeon support

2009-11-18 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Donald Kayser wrote: Hello, Has anyone been able to configure the 4-head supported, dual FireMV 2400 chip video card. It is my understanding there is a bridge on the card between two 2400 chips. I am able to get only the first pair of monitors working, whenever I try to

Re: dual screen setup

2009-10-09 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Leszek Koltunski wrote: I use a dual screen setup and the Gnome DE. My problem is that if I operate on the 2nd screen, *some* ( not all! ) of windows which are supposed to appear on it appear on the 1st ( primary ) screen instead. I can confirm that I get

Re: radeon, screen option

2009-10-08 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Csillag Kristof wrote: Dear all, Now that my individual monitors are operational, I would like to create the following setup: Monitor 1Monitor 2Monitor 3 (Connected to (Connected to (Connected to FireMV 2200) RS690M)

Re: examples of using xinput?

2009-09-20 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: Excerpts from Tom Horsley's message of Sun Sep 20 09:52:17 +1000 2009: OK, I've been trying to understand the official new way to configure my trackball for draglock and to shuffle buttons around to my liking, and while I can tell from web searches

Re: desired keyboard behavior

2009-09-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
What about this one: http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/keyboards/POS/SPOS_Rows_Columns/index.htm I don't own one or anything, or even know whether it works with xorg (I presume it does), but it looks like it should be customisable to do just about anything. I can't answer the

Re: LeftOf in monitor section is not completely honored

2009-09-15 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Csillag Kristof wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set up a dual-head configuration. (Triple-head actually, but let's forget that for a moment.) Sounds like exactly what I've been doing. I'm currently using a FireMV 2400 hooked to three screens, only two of which

Re: Would SLI speed-up Xinerama?

2009-09-11 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Sascha wrote: Hello List! I currently use a triple-head setup with 2 nvidia-cards: What version of xorg? I'm doing dual head on xorg 1.6.1/7.4 (Fedora 11), but with one graphics card. The graphics card has 4 outputs, but I can't seem to get the second

Re: Space Navigator 3D

2009-08-31 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: Have we considered the possibility of mapping things using an xkb-like set of config files? Or even integrating it into xkb? I note that we have: -Something that maps a physical axis (scroll wheel) to a virtual set of buttons I'm

OT: Re: HD-Video Hardwar Acceleration?

2009-08-31 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Arjen van der Meijden wrote: On 29-8-2009 12:53, Harald Braumann wrote: I for one care less about 3D acceleration. But it's very frustrating that it's still not possible to watch full HD videos on Linux. This is slightly off-topic, but I had to comment on your statement.

Space Navigator 3D

2009-08-30 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. I have a pointing device with 5 axes (a Space Navigator). Does anyone know how I can assign one of them to be a scroll wheel? :) - | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is,

Re: Space Navigator 3D

2009-08-30 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:13:01AM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: I have a pointing device with 5 axes (a Space Navigator). Does anyone know how I can assign one of them to be a scroll wheel? provided that the space navigator gives you x/y axes

Re: Space Navigator 3D

2009-08-30 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:11:54PM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:13:01AM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: I have a pointing device with 5 axes (a Space Navigator). Does anyone know how I can assign one of them

Re: Need help with setting up Infocus Screenplay 5000 projector

2009-07-29 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, john smith wrote: I have had an Infocus Screenplay 5000 for a few weeks now, and its a great projector. After first getting it and the 30 ft DVI cable I bought for it, I hooked it straight up to my graphics card and after a few hours of tweaking xorg.conf I got it working

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-26 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Jim Gettys wrote: For curiosity's sake, have people actually seen keyboards with more than 248 keys? - Jim No, but I had this idea, see, of having one keyboard for each hand, and merging their events together at the kernel level. :)

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: - When will the XI2 API be finalized? I think it is now, though I have to have a final glossover on monday to make sure I didn't forget anything. Quick question: What's the maximum number of keys per keyboard it supports? Thanks :)

Re: add a second keyboard with a different mapping

2009-07-21 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: The next thing was to test running the keyboards with different maps. Now that configuration I'm after is like this: Keyboard 1: Standard us+pc105+inet setup Keyboard 2: 4 layouts; us-intl, el (Greek), il (Hebrew), and a custom layout

Re: getting all kbd events

2009-07-08 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Nokan Emiro wrote: Hi, The next simple program tries to subscribe to all keyboard events, and print a short message on all received ones.  I expected to see the short message on all keypresses, for example if I press 'a', 'b', ..., '1', '2', ...,  or 'F1', 'F2', etc.  But

/usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose

2009-06-23 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Who's in charge of that? It doesn't seem to be xkeyboard-config; is it xorg? I ask because we now have a keyboard map for the APL programming language, and it will need its own special compose sequences for the Unicode APL symbols. Thanks,

Re: /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose

2009-06-23 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Who's in charge of that? It doesn't seem to be xkeyboard-config; is it xorg? I ask because we now have a keyboard map for the APL programming language, and it will need its own special compose sequences for the Unicode APL symbols

Re: Having multiple X users on the console

2009-06-21 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Angel Tsankov wrote: I need to set up a workstation for use by two (or more) users. Each of them will have their own account and will use X with some desktop environment -- most probably Xfce -- to do their work. In this scenario, will it be possible for any of them to

Re: Keystroke flow in X.org

2009-06-12 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 02:36:44PM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Here's a rather mundane article with a good diagram that I just wrote. It should probably be linked to from http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB but since I don' tappear to have access

Re: Keystroke flow in X.org

2009-06-12 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: So, here's my impression of how it works based on what you've just said. [snip] Yuck. Let me do some more reworking. - When a keystroke comes from the hardware, it gets picked up and sent to the client (ie

Re: Keystroke flow in X.org

2009-06-12 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: yeah, close enough, except that in most cases xmodmap has little influence Ok. s/xmodmap/XKB/ if the physical keyboard changes, the server sends out a keymap notify event and the cycle starts at 2 again. Hopefully, anyway, otherwise the

Keystroke flow in X.org

2009-06-11 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Here's a rather mundane article with a good diagram that I just wrote. It should probably be linked to from http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB but since I don' tappear to have access to do that, I'm posting the link on the mailing list instead.

Re: Switching between virtual desktops

2009-06-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
This may not be helpful at the moment, but should you decide that you need to go down the multiple displays route eventually, there exist screen cards that do 4 VGA ports on the one card. Unfortunately the only one I know of requires PCI Express, but I'm fairly sure there are others.

New APL keyboard maps

2009-05-14 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. I've been interacting with the APL community to create keyboard maps for their special-purpose keyboards (I don't use APL myself, though). I've created some keyboard maps that, while probably not perfect, are probably a step ahead of the complete lack of support that we currently

Re: modify keyboard layout

2009-05-10 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sat, 9 May 2009, mobidyc wrote: Hello, all I want to do is to redefine the keyboard mapping for the first row. I tried to modify the /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr file like this: [snip] How did you go about ensuring that you had the correct keyboard map loaded? Have you tried

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Tiago Vignatti wrote: Alex Deucher escreveu: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: Your best bet short term is to use xserver 1.4.x. Any idea how long that short term is? 1.4.x works fine for me at the moment, but I'd rather not

Multi-card Xorg

2009-03-24 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. For those of you who are interested in having Xorg work with multiple graphics cards, I've created a bugzilla bug to track the issue. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20816 If the issue is something you want to keep an eye on, feel free to add yourself to

Re: libpciaccess patch for multiple videocards/int 10 problem

2009-03-13 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Francisco Jerez wrote: Hi, Timothy S. Nelson wayl...@wayland.id.au writes: Hi all. There's a patch that's attached to bugzilla bug 18160 that fixes the problem specified in that bug; now that it prevents xorg from hanging the machine, other bugs have become

libpciaccess patch for multiple videocards/int 10 problem

2009-03-04 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. There's a patch that's attached to bugzilla bug 18160 that fixes the problem specified in that bug; now that it prevents xorg from hanging the machine, other bugs have become visible, but the patch attached to comment 30 seems to solve the problem. How do we go about getting

Re: int10 using vbios from wrong card

2009-02-21 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Steven J Newbury wrote: While trying to figure out where my VGA-SCART video output has disappeared, I noticed my secondary Radeon 9250 is being booted with the VBIOS from the primary X800 as can be seen in the attached log. Older logs from working versions seem to show

Re: Multihead Displays

2008-12-31 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Jason Gauthier wrote: So, I?m left wondering how to accomplish this task.  Any insight is helpful! I'm under the impression that this problem can be solved at both the X level and the Window Manager level. If no solutions are forthcoming at the X level, you may want

Re: multi head failsafe

2008-12-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Carl Karsten wrote: I have 3 video cards: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) 02:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PP/PRO TMDS [Xpert 128] 02:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI

Re: new Xorg + btnx

2008-12-11 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:38:31PM -0800, William Tracy wrote: http://ubersoft.net/void-initrand/misc-wherein-i-curse-ubuntu-needlessly-breaking-something-useful 1. I don't use btnx, so I don't share his problem. Ask him for details, not me. 2.

Re: X Hangs at Initializing int10

2008-12-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Matthieu Herrb wrote: Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi all. I'm upgrading from Fedora 6 to Fedora 10. I did a clean install of Fedora 10 and then, as the default X config didn't work, I copied across my old xorg.conf file. Naturally I had to comment out a few lines

Re: X Hangs at Initializing int10

2008-12-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: 1.Is there a function I could call in libpciaccess that would output stuff somewhere useful, preferably Xorg.0.log or whatever? Or, alternatively, where do those writes to stderr go

X Hangs at Initializing int10

2008-12-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. I'm upgrading from Fedora 6 to Fedora 10. I did a clean install of Fedora 10 and then, as the default X config didn't work, I copied across my old xorg.conf file. Naturally I had to comment out a few lines in that file. Now a word on my setup. I have two screens, one hanging off an